My courses explore how Asian religious traditions transmit and interpret what is sacred and meaningful via a variety of mediums such as visual and ritual media, poetics of reverence, biographical narratives, models of mind and cosmology. My teaching interests are in the meditative, creative, and philosophical traditions of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, and my research and training included several years living in a Buddhist monastery in eastern Tibet.

Courses Taught:

Himalayan Buddhist Visual Culture Fall 2010

Tibetan Language and Culture Fall 2010

Sacred Cosmologies of Asia Spring 2010

Mandala: Visions of Tantric Buddhism Fall 2009

Independent Study: Reading Classical Literary Tibetan Fall 2009

Recent Publications:

“The Jonangpa after Tāranātha: Auto/biographical Reflections on the Transmission of Esoteric Buddhist Knowledge in 17th Century Tibet.” In The Bulletin of Tibetology, 45.1. Gangtok, Sikkim: Namgyal Institute, 2010.

“Transforming a Tradition: Tibetan Artists on the Dialectic of Sanctity and Modernity.” In Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond. New York: Arts Asia Pacific and Rubin Museum of Art, 2010.

“A Lineage History of Vajrayoga and Tantric Zhentong from the Jonang Kalachakra Practice Tradition.” In As Long As Space Endures: Essays on the Kalachakra Tantra in Honor of the Dalai Lama. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2009.